Think Business With Jon Dwoskin

Jon talks with John Vuong, Founder of Local SEO Search, about everything SEO. The fourth child of Vietnamese immigrants to Canada, John is very familiar with hard work. He was born and raised in Hamilton, and worked from a young age to help his family while also having some pocket money to have fun. John has had almost too many jobs to count, starting when he was ten helping out on paper routes. Through all of his work, though, he has focused on a single thing – building relationships. Whether it was collecting money and making sales on his paper route, shelving books at his local library, or manning the fryer at a stadium, he loved meeting new people and getting to know them. He connected by listening to others’ stories and sharing his own. At University in London, Ontario, he studied finance. He quickly learned that living on your own in residence doesn’t mean you can procrastinate and coast – he got 20% below his usual grades on his first exams. He quickly learned to buckle down and work hard to get the r

Jon talks with Colin McIntosh, Founder and CEO of Sheets and Giggles, about how you can build your business from scratch - starting from a business model and plugging in your product. Colin McIntosh is the founder and CEO of Sheets and Giggles. Sheets and Giggles is a eCommerce company in the $12B bedding space. They make their sheets from Eucalyptus, which uses 96% less water than cotton, and makes a more durable product. The Eucalyptus is sustainably harvested on farms, Colin is not depleting natural Eucalyptus with his sheets. Colin came to us to promote his company's emphasis on environmental stewardship and corporate social responsibility. He donated 20k to Corona Virus relief funds last week, and plans to donate much more. Colin also has a great founder story, he started the company by raising 285k with a crowdfunding campaign, and has since attracted 2M+ in venture backing.   Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagr

Jon, Randall and Jamie discuss why everyone needs a Virtual Administrative Consultant to grow your business and save your time. After 18 years in the corporate world focusing on everything from project management and recruiting to sales and customer service, Jamie Garavaglia decided to use her skills to help business owners reclaim their time so they can focus on the big picture rather than time consuming daily operations. Her business, Jamie Garavaglia, Virtual Administrative Consultant is her newest venture, culminating her experience and channeling it into helping business owners. Jamie works with businesses to help develop, document, and organize systems, processes and people to help organizations scale. It’s a role she learned well at her most recent position as Regional Director of Sales and Operations (which she continues to hold) at a highly successful and growing fitness brand. She wears many hats, continue to master many skills and help manage more than 100 employees. Her job is to free up space so

Jon talks with Paul Birkett, Founder and CEO of Automation Finance, about what you should think about as an entrepreneur and step up you business. Paul is the founder of Automation Finance, where they buy distressed debt at a discount, work with the borrower to get them back on track and pay investors up to 8% return. Within 6 years, they have saved more than 2,000 families from foreclosure and as CEO, Paul oversees Automation Finance’s management of $200 Million of distressed mortgages. Previously, Paul spent 18 years at PepsiCo where he served as Vice President and General Manager for the $3Bn Non Carbonated Beverage portfolio and the New York Market Unit. They just recently raised their Seed A round as well of $50m. Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon’s Book: The Think

Jon does a fireside chat with Maria Mileder, the Global Head of Innovation at PayPal.   Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon’s Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big!

Have you ever met a client who almost drove you insane? Did you wonder how you could have turned the table around? In today's episode, Jon and Scott talks about nightmare clients and what we can learn from them.   Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon’s Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big!

Did you know that not many people put attention on the water they consume on a daily basis? Well this guy did. Jon and Riggs discuss the power of water. Riggs is the founder and CEO of the innovative water technology company, OriginClear, which is delivering water solutions for industrial customers worldwide. OriginClear has developed and licensed an invention that treats industrial and agricultural waste water with very little energy, and no chemicals. And now, industrial users can treat their water right where they use it, using prepackaged “point of use” water treatment systems that have an amazing life cycle of up to 100 years or more. Riggs Eckelberry doesn’t look like a bomb-thrower. And yet, he’s driving the disruption of a trillion-dollar industry that has fallen behind the times and is affecting the health of millions. That industry is Big Water. Simply, those billion-dollar centralized water systems aren’t coping with demand, and water quality is getting worse. The answer? Instant InfrastructureTM.

Jon, Jeff and Jared discuss sales, leadership and how to protect yourself during COVID. Jared Rothberger is co-owner of JAN-PRO Detroit, a franchise of JAN-PRO. JAN-PRO realizes the test every cleaning company must pass is whether the value of its service is worth the cost. That is why JAN-PROs goal is to provide the highest quality, most up-to-date, professional commercial cleaning service at the best possible price. JAN-PRO will tailor each cleaning program to meet your individual needs, assuring you a better value for your money. At JAN-PRO you pay only for the cleaning services that you want. JAN-PRO® owner/operators are dedicated to providing consistent, reliable service on an ongoing basis. Jon talks with Jared Rothberger about how Jan-Pro Detroit is helping businesses and homeowners disinfect their spaces. During the Coronavirus pandemic, Jan-Pro has completely pivoted their janitorial services focus on Enviroshield disinfecting, which typically takes about an hour and is a minimally-envasive process.

Jon talks with Jeff Bermant, Founder and CEO of Cocoon Browser, about strategies to successfully pivot your business and tips on starting a business. Jeff Bermant is the founder and CEO of Cocoon Browser. Cocoon allows you to privatize your online data. If you're willing to share the data, Cocoon will pay you, which allows you to monetize data that would be shared anyway with a traditional browser. Jeff pivoted from real estate development to information security in 2008 when he started Virtual World Computing. He's done 775M in real estate development.   Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon’s Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big!   Connect with Jeff Bermant: Website: https://getcocoon.com/mdr  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-berman

Jon talks with Gina Kell Spehn, Co-Founder and President, New Day Foundation for Families, about how to keep the momentum and energy in your business. Gina Kell Spehn is wife to Michael for 12 years, mom of five, a New York Times bestselling author, and co-founder and President of New Day Foundation for Families. Gina and Michael founded New Day in 2007 to honor their late spouses Matt Kell and Cathy Spehn who each succumbed to cancer in their 30’s. Gina and Michael co-authored the New York Times bestselling book, “The Color of Rain”, which tells their story, and the origins of New Day. Their book became a Hallmark Movie Channel original in 2014.   Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon’s Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big!   Connect with Gina Kel

Jon talks with Jim Nieman, President of Nieman Lending and Consulting, about how you can grow your business amidst a pandemic. James M. Nieman conceptualized and implemented infrastructure for this newly-formed licensed mortgage broker. He has created and maintained strategic relationships with investors of residential mortgage loan sales on the secondary market. He also oversaw comprehensive organizational direction and operations. Additionally, he engaged in continuous process improvement, evaluating and analyzing practices against pre-determined goals and benchmarks.   Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon’s Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big!   Connect with Jim Nieman: Website: https://niemanlendingandconsulting.com/  LinkedIn: https://www.l

Jon talks with Brett Swarts about deferred sales trusts, a unique strategy in empowering every business professional to create or preserve their client's wealth. Brett Swarts is the Founder of Capital Gains Tax Solutions and host of the Capital Gains Tax Solutions Podcast. Each year, he equips hundreds of business professionals with the Deferred Sales Trust tool to help their high net worth clients solve capital gains tax deferral limitations. Brett is considered one of the most well-rounded Capital Gains Tax Deferral Experts and informative speakers on the west coast. His audiences are challenged to lean into multiple capital gains tax deferral strategies, create and develop a tax-deferred passive cash flow optimal timing wealth plan of their own, and execute on this plan so they can create and preserve more wealth.   Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/

Jon and Randall talk with John, Founder of JK Murphy Advisors, to discuss how to scale your business amidst a pandemic - ways to survive, transition, and thrive. For his entire career, John K. Murphy (“Murph”) has helped owners of private businesses set the optimal strategic direction, prepare for and facilitate M&A transactions and achieve accelerated growth acting in an advisory board-type role.  Murph was an investment banker for over twenty years and started a strategic M&A consulting practice in mid 2004.  He helps private business owners prepare and position for major strategic events like the sale of the company, capital raise, accelerating growth to the next level and shareholder transitions. His investment banking experience and “think like a buyer not an owner” perspective help him identify the positives and/or weak spots of his clients. He helps fix the negatives and accentuate the positives to create a more valuable business. For those clients who choose to sell or raise capital, Murph hel

Jon shares a quick tip about 3 major mistakes you need to avoid during presentations.   Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon’s Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big!

Jon and Bryan Wish, Founder of BW Missions, talk about how to build your brand in today’s market.  For the better half of his life, Bryan didn’t belong to the common narrative of the world. Sports teams he didn’t make, friend groups he didn’t fit into, a fraternity he dropped after one week in rush, and jobs where his potential was tied to a direct report’s approval. Simply, Bryan wasn’t on the right path and didn’t know how to articulate it until he hit a quarter-life crisis (rock bottom) his junior year of college. Through self discovery, Bryan became clear on his individuality, leading him to find a new community propelling him to stand out fully on his own and find the path that was meant for him all along - entrepreneurship. Traversing this pathway hasn’t been easy. However, what it has provided Bryan is a chance to show up everyday personally and professionally 100% authentically as himself. On this journey Bryan has been able to help build multiple startups at the center of helping others find their pa

Jon talks with Chris Paquette, CEO of DeepIntent, about how to start a company. Chris Paquette is Chief Executive Officer of DeepIntent, a marketing technology company he co-founded on the principle that digital media can influence positive health outcomes. MarketMatch™, the company’s healthcare technology platform, currently supports 20 major pharmaceutical companies and dozens of media agencies to advertise more than 200 healthcare brands. Paquette co-founded DeepIntent in 2016, leveraging his multifaceted technical, scientific, and entrepreneurial expertise to help develop cutting-edge marketing technology solutions for healthcare marketers. He has led the company to achieve 3x annual revenue growth and quadruple employee headcount across its New York, California, and India offices. Prior to DeepIntent, Paquette was a Data Scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where he developed systems that leveraged machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve patient experiences and outcomes. O

Jon and Jeff talk with Nicole Vanstrien, Account Executive at Title Connect, LLC, about how to sell in today’s market! Title Connect, LLC was founded in 2004 by Walter Quillico and Jeff Gunsberg. It is a full service title and escrow Service Company. Title Connect provides services for both Commercial and Residential customers. The Company has grown through honest and reliable service that helps customers close real estate transactions. This dedication to service has allowed Title Connect to expand to 9 locations and 45 associates. This includes a Branch Office in Florida. Title connect professionals are experienced and dedicated. Its top and middle management team is composed of title and escrow professionals that have been servicing customers in Michigan for a team average of 20 years.  Title Connect is a member of the American Land Title Association which allows them to keep current on all the new laws and regulations that impact the real estate industry.   Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Face

Jon talks with Anahid Derbabian, Therapist, Author, Speaker and Owner of helpmetoheal.com, about how you can heal by understanding what you really want, reconnecting with yourself, and being more present. Be guided out of the darkness and into the light. Anahid Lisa Derbabian, a Nationally-Certified and Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and life coach, powerfully will help you create a life of joy, purpose, peace, success, adventure, and far more. While building a successful marketing career, Anahid’s family, friends, and colleagues often commented on how she deeply impacted them with her intuitive and loving spirit. Upon realizing her life’s mission was to impact and heal people in deep ways, she returned to school while working full-time and earned a master’s degree in counseling with honors. Through the years, Anahid has become known for helping people to powerfully and deeply connect with their true self and desires. You will release old patterns that do not serve you, adopt healthy coping mechanisms,

Jon talks with Thomas Daniels, owner of Daniels/Dworkin Tutors, about what the future of ACT’s and SAT’s mean for our kids and universities, and how proper tutoring can help students reach their goals. After a long and successful career as a teacher, administrator and coach, Tom decided to combine these skills as the owner of Daniels/Dworkin Tutors. Preparing students for standardized tests begins with the challenge of creating a comfort zone which allows the students to gain confidence in their abilities erasing the anxiety that is inherent in test taking. Just as an athletic coach convinces the players that what they are undertaking can be done by pushing them past any imagined limits, Tom instills in his students this same “can do” attitude. Tom subscribes to this definition of practice: practice is convincing yourself that you can do things that you previously thought could not be done. Tom’s business card touts himself as tutor and owner “extraordinaire.” He has thousands of students to back up this boas

Are you listening or are you just waiting for your turn to speak? Are you still dependent on your Sales scripts? In today's episode, the guys will talk you through the art of listening and it's importance in Sales.   Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon’s Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big!